"Emperor, things have yin and yang, and things have rush. The emperor has so many things. In fact, many things cannot be solved immediately. My opinion is that things that cannot be solved do not need to be solved for now. After a while, I will solve them myself." Li Hongzhang suggested to President Meng.

The cute CEO is sweating, what is the difference between what you said and what you said?

Li Hongzhang smiled and said, "The Emperor may think I am talking nonsense, but this is my experience in government for 30 years. Many things are indeed like this. If you don't think about the pros and cons in practice and make a blind decision, it is better to face it easily and ignore it first."

The cute president nodded and said, "I understand what the teacher means. I have arranged the matter of the railway company recently."

"Okay." Because it still involves diplomacy, the cute president mainly handed over to Li Hongzhang.

The cute president really doesn't think that Li Hongzhang will be worse than anyone under his command in the top management. No matter how talented Zhao Qingluo and Princess Katrina Kaifu are, they cannot keep up with Li Hongzhang's experience. Li Hongzhang's country in China will definitely not be the same as in the Qing court.

China's Railway Corporation is established in Shanghai and has a branch in Tianjin and Hankou.

At the beginning of the establishment, some official funds were asked to be paid for the establishment funds, and local officials were asked to help recruit commercial stocks so that they could have a capital of 130,000 yuan.

Since then, the road has been officially completed and opened to traffic this year and has been renamed the Jinghan Railway.

During this period, two branches of Zhengtai and Bianluo Road were also built.

In the Yangtze River Basin and the eastern coastal areas, five railways from Tianjin to Zhenjiang, Shanxi through Henan to the Yangtze River, Jiulong to Guangzhou, Pukou to Xinyang, and Suzhou through Hangzhou to Ningbo are built.

The cute president, accompanied by Princess Katrina Kaif, Lee Hongzhang and Lee Tae-hee, personally inspected the railway line in Japan.

Since getting off the train, there has been no rest. The front-line battle report was reported to the cute president at the first time. In fact, it can no longer be considered a battle report. It should be said that it is just a situation, because the battle has been completed.

The Japanese did not react. So far, they had not even gone to Nagasaki for protesting.

The main reason is that the transportation of the Japanese is too inconvenient.

"In my opinion, don't send troops to station. Demolish these rails and transport them to the North Korean steel factory." The cute president told Princess Katrina Kaif and Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang didn't say anything. He had a mature personality. He was not a cute president. He usually wouldn't take the initiative. This is what makes the cute president annoyed Li Hongzhang more.

Li Hongzhang also knew that the cute CEO annoyed him, but this was his personality that he had developed over the years, and there was no way to change it just by saying that.

Princess Katrina Kaif smiled and said, "It's OK, but this project is not small, and it requires tens of thousands of civilians."

The cute CEO looked at Li Hongzhang, "What do you think?"

"I think it's OK, too." Li Hongzhang was used to calling himself a minister, or an old minister, and changed it to me. It was difficult to speak with the cute president, which was why Li Hongzhang dared not speak casually.

The cute president laughed and said, "Teacher, please relax. I think it's really hard for you to speak. You can say whatever you want. In China, as long as it doesn't involve corruption and you don't kill people casually, there is no such thing as making mistakes for me."

Li Hongzhang smiled and said, "It's not that I don't want to talk. Princess Katrina Kaif said it very well. I have nothing to say. Demolition of the railway seems to be the best way and the only way. If you can't occupy it, don't just demolish it? I suggest that it is best to loot the railway along the railway from Xiaguan City to Nagasaki and force the Japanese civilians!"

The cute CEO was shocked. Li Hongzhang either didn't say anything. When he spoke, he was really scary. "Will this cruel to the Japanese arouse their whole country's indignation and struggle to resist?"

Li Hongzhang said seriously: "I suggest that the emperor kill tens of thousands of people first! Have the Japanese resisted the British, French, and Americans? Which of their great powers killed less in Japan? The Japanese have never resisted the Spanish and Dutch. As far as I know, the more powerful people killed in Japan, the more respected the Japanese are."

The great powers also killed people and colonized in Japan, but why were they not so cruel to the Qing Dynasty?

Before and after the Meiji Restoration, Japan has been suffering from invasion by Western powers.

Extraterritorial legal powers (destroying power and humiliating the country), concessions (cede land), and unequal trade treaties (indirectly equal to compensation) abound.

However, the Japanese bones are getting harder and harder, and the modern progress bar is read quickly, and quickly get rid of the invasion.

In 1858, the Edo Shogunate of Japan signed the Treaty of the Five-Countries of the Security Bureau with the United States, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Russia, and was forced to allow the opening of five ports, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Kobe, Niigata and Hakodate. Between 1859 and 1869, these five ports and Tokyo and Osaka 6 continued to be opened, and foreign concessions were established (called foreign residence areas in Japanese).

The First Opium War was because Lin Zexu deducted goods and arrested people and prohibited trade, so Britain had to send an expeditionary force. The UK believed that China did not trade with him, which led to a normal trade deficit in Britain, so it asked China to open a port.

The Second Opium War was because the fools thought there were not enough ports opened, so the trade between China and Britain was still in a deficit. So they found an excuse to attack the Second Opium War.

Imperialist expansion only requires two things. The first is cheap resources, and the second is a market where cheap junk products can be dumped. China does not have resources, but China has a market for these junk products. Japan does not have any of the above things, and at most it is a small market, so it basically has no value worth invading.

Apart from coal, China has no valuable resources and does not even have high-quality iron ore.

I really don’t want to divide you. The so-called division is just to dismember you because it’s too big and it’s hard for people to control it.

It was just like the Japanese who took the wrong medicine. They had to occupy land when they came to China, but in the end they had no stuttering, and they had to be destined from their own country.

After fighting for several years, Mao didn't get a single one. After eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japan had been looking for Chongqing to truce. In the end, Japan was at a loss and wanted to go to Southeast Asia to grab rubber and oil, which led to the United States joining the war.

In the early and mid-19th century, especially before the founding of the shogunate, Japan suffered from aggression, although there were incidents such as black ships, the Treaty of the Five-Countries of the Anzheng State, the opening of trade ports, etc., it was not as deep or broad as the Qing Dynasty, and it was not invaded on a large scale. This is an objective historical fact.

Is it because the Japanese are smart or powerful, or are they worthy of fear of the great powers?

At that time, under the Edo Shogunate ruled, Japan was already a country with loose military equipment due to nearly two hundred years of peace, and did not have much resistance in front of Western powers.

The Qing Dynasty and Japan were not much different in the early and mid-19th century. They also closed their doors and the shogunate's military strength was even weaker than that of the Qing Dynasty. Even in the early Meiji Restoration, Japan's military strength could not be within the eyes of the great powers such as Britain and France.

More than 10,000 British troops who fought to Zhenjiang in 184o and more than 20,000 British and French coalition forces who fought to Beijing in 186o could still be thrown into Kyoto and Edo, and there would be no difference.

The reason why Japan has not suffered from a large-scale invasion is that it has geographical location and its poor resources.

Japan is an island country hanging alone in a corner of Northeast Asia. Its geographical location is not superior, nor is it located on the important commercial channel at that time. For Western powers, large-scale invasion of Japan was actually difficult (the British was able to invade the Qing Dynasty because of India's base and springboard). It was obvious that the troops were mobilized. When Brigadier General Perry led several black ships to open the shogunate gate, the purpose was to provide a supply point for the United States' future merchant ships and fleets to the Far East.

Of course, if Japan had resources that made the great powers salivate, then in the 19th century, even if it was geographically remote, it would still attract large-scale invasions from Western countries, but it did not.

Of course, this is by no means that Japan has always been very barren. In fact, in the early Edo period (17th century), Japan was a well-known rich country - because it was rich in gold and silver, it was even called the "Golden Country" by Marco Polo in his travel notes, and was later called a paradise of prosperity by the Spanish and Dutch.

Kurokawa Kinshan, Yuno-Okinshan and Sado Kinshan were all the larger gold mountains in the world at that time. In the early days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, these gold mountains became an important source of wealth and financial support for the shogunate.

In addition to Kingsoft, Japan also has many large-scale silver mountains, which were among the forefront of the world at that time.

Therefore, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish and later Dutch, including the Qing people, gained huge wealth through trade with Japan.

Japan also did business with the Qing Dynasty, and even regarded the Qing Dynasty as its main trading target.

In the "New Regulations on the Transactions between Sea Ships" issued by the Shogunate in 1715, the shogunate stipulated that the Qing Dynasty could come to trade 10 ships in one year, with the transaction amount being limited to 3 ooo jin, while the Dutch's transaction amount was limited to 15 ooo jin per year (the weight unit of Japan at that time was about 3.75 kilograms).

Because Japan's export volume was small at that time, the import volume was large, and Japan's trade with foreign countries brought about an astonishing trade deficit. The consequence of this trade deficit was the large outflow of gold and silver.

According to the statistics of the Japanese shogunate itself, from 1655 to 1715, Japan had 2.39776 taels of gold and 3742 taels of silver, accounting for half of the gold production at that time and three-quarters of the silver production. This is also the reason why the shogunate decided to promulgate the "New Marine Trade Regulations" to limit the scale of trade.

In the 19th century, due to the oppression of Westerners, the outflow of gold and silver increased again.

After Brigadier General Perry arrived at the black ship, he signed the "Japan-US Peace Treaty" in 1854. The shogunate agreed to open up trade with the United States in full. As a result, other Western powers flocked to it and finally reached the "Five-Country Treaty of Security and Political Affairs", and the great powers all received one-sided most-favored-nation treatment for trade with Japan.

These merchants used the treaty to seize huge profits from Japan. An important part of them was to use the gold-silver ratio of Japan to be lower than that of the outside world (at that time, Japan's gold-silver exchange rate was 1:1o, while in the UK and other countries it was 1:2o), and used a large amount of silver to buy Japanese gold.

In just over a decade, Japan's gold flowed out in large quantities again, and the shogunate finances reached the end of their lives. It was precisely because of the financial failure that the Reformers could easily overturn the shogunate rule that had been close to two and a half centuries.

What's even more terrifying is that after centuries of mining, Japan's mines have become exhausted. The output of large gold mines such as Sado Kinshan has become very low in modern times and can no longer be compared with their heyday.

So after centuries of mediocrity and the failure of trade with the Qing and Westerners, Japan's original precious metals have flowed out in large quantities, from a gold country that everyone envies to a barren country. Compared with the Qing country, which has accumulated silver for hundreds of years through trade in silk, tea and other trade, it is tantamount to a country with no invasion value.

If Japan had as much wealth as the Qing Dynasty, then in that era when the strong prey on the weak, no matter how institutionally enlightened the Japanese shogunate or the Japanese court was, they would definitely face invasion by Western powers. Therefore, what is important is not how it is, but whether it is worth invading.

Of course, after barely avoiding the Western aggression frenzy in the early 19th century, Japan did not waste its luck. After learning from the pain of lofty ideals in the Meiji era, it finally changed the mediocrity of the previous centuries, participated in the world with a positive attitude, and with the efforts of ordinary people, it changed Japan's extremely weak trade state, became an advanced industrial country and a trade country, accumulated huge wealth again, and finally became one of the world's great powers.

Of course, this possibility will no longer exist in this time and space of the cute president.

The world before the United States in the 19th century was a world that was divided up by the great powers and was alone on the other side of the world island.

At that time, the United States proposed Monroeism to try to transform America into its own. The subtext is actually that it is its own side to stay away from traditional powers to compete for the world islands and to take care of its own land with peace of mind - it is essentially another manifestation of isolationism.

If you are really sure to compete for the World Island, who doesn’t want to join?

At that time, China, that is, the Qing Dynasty, gave the United States such an opportunity.

The reason why China has not become a colony is entirely because it is too big.

A behemoth like the Qing Dynasty not only has a single ethnic population of billions, but also has a unified tradition of thousands of years.

We must concentrate on managing the colonies and be wary of other European powers. Which European power has such a big appetite to swallow China?

With thousands of mountains and rivers?

The King of England never minded the accomplishment of the two emperors and the reputation of the emperors was forever.

However, although the great powers could not swallow them, their efforts to divide China into eight parts have not stopped for a day.

Among these great powers, only the Americans opposed the dismemberment of the Qing Empire.

Roosevelt once said bluntly: "I sincerely hope not to divide China, and doing so will not be good for anyone." Americans before him said many similar words, but in fact they have been making similar efforts, such as the so-called open door policy.

The Pacific Ocean can indeed accommodate China and the United States, but there is also Japan among them.

In 1853, the American General Perry opened the door of Japan, and the executioner cut off the remains of the shogunate and ushered in the era of reform. From then on, the Japanese Emperor **** started constitutional monarchy and quickly grew into an extroverted capitalist empire.

Japan only started its reform in 1867. Why did it grow enough to invade foreign countries after just 8 years?

The answer is still American.

The United States saw through the limits of the radiation of European powers. Their greedy long tongues were entangled by the fat flesh of the Qing Dynasty. They had neither the ability nor the interest to continue to go east.

At that time, the power of the great powers in Japan was actually an inertia extension generated by their respective world-wide strength, such as the British position in the Japanese market.

But Americans are different. They need to open a sea route from the West Coast to the Qing Empire and ensure that the road is in the hands of the Americans themselves. For this reason, they annexed Hawaii with some ugly food.

They also need a Japan that can stand up to break the situation and stand on the front line of facing the European powers instead of themselves.

That is why they were so eager to open the door of Japan and abandoned the great powers to support Japan on the road of open expansion, such as allowing Japan to get back tariff rights, such as acquiesce Japan's annexation of Ryukyu, acquiesce Japan's invasion of Taiwan and North Korea, and refusing to mediate the Sino-Japanese War in the early stage.

However, the United States did not expect that the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia were so unfair that Japan was indulged as a monster by itself.

"I agree." The cute president said to Li Hongzhang and Princess Katrina Kaif with a quick decision.

Princess Katrina Kaif nodded and said, "Indeed, if you have the ability to hit us, they have already come to Nagasaki. If you don't kill a group of people, it is indeed not enough to shock the Japanese. Our ultimate goal is to get Nagasaki and obtain permanent trading privileges for Japan."

Li Hongzhang nodded in agreement, "Yes, the great powers opened the door of the Qing Dynasty for trade. We opened the door of Japan for trade. If the terms of trade are recognized by the Japanese government, then in the area of ​​Saigo Takashi, we can ask us that we have the ability to hold Kyushu Island if we buy arms."

The cute CEO was overjoyed. Isn’t this a solution?

"After solving the Americans, do the British and French have any attitudes? Do you know about this in the United States?" The cute president asked Princess Katrina Kaif.

"No, there is no movement in all aspects. The Americans do not have long-distance radios. They probably don't know that we have wiped out Scherpel's troops." Princess Katrina Kaif smiled.
Chapter completed!